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arXiv:quant-ph/0211008 · Physics Letters A

Complex optical potentials and pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians

Ram Narayan Deb, Avinash Khare, Binayak Dutta Roy

Published Jan 21, 2003• 53 citations
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10.1016/s0375-9601(02)01725-5

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For a given standard Hamiltonian H = [p - A(x)]2/(2m) + V(x) with arbitrary complex scalar potential V and vector potential A, with x ∈ ℝ, we construct an invertible antilinear operator τ such that H is τ-anti-pseudo-hermitian, i.e. H† = τHτ-1. We use this result to give the explicit form of a linear hermitian invertible operator with respect to which any standard PT-symmetric Hamiltonian with a real degree of freedom is pseudo-hermitian. Our results do not make use of the assumption that H is diagonalizable or that its spectrum is discrete.
For a pair of non-Hermitian Hamiltonian H and its Hermitian adjoint H(dagger), there are situations in which their eigenfunctions form a biorthogonal system. We illustrate such a situation by means of a one-particle system with a one-dimensional point interaction in the form of the Fermi pseudo-potential. The interaction consists of three terms with three strength parameters g(i) (i = 1, 2 and 3), which are all complex. This complex point interaction is neither Hermitian nor PT-invariant in general. The S-matrix for the transmission reflection problem constructed with H (or with H(dagger)) in the usual manner is not unitary, but it conforms to the pseudo-unitarity that we define. The pseudounitarity is closely related to the biorthogonality of the eigenfunctions. The eigenvalue spectrum of H with the complex interaction is generally complex but there are cases where the spectrum is real. In such a case H and H(dagger) form a pseudo-Hermitian pair.